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To: Bill who wrote (133542)	5/19/2004 12:00:40 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

FYI, a fuller version of the Einstein quote: I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is no different than murder. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. One does not make wars less likely by formulating rules of warfare... War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.